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Cause and effect1 quote
Every cause produces more than one effect. — Herbert Spencer · 1857Effects of time1 quote
We think time cannot touch the dead, but it touches their monuments, leaving them snub-nosed and stub-fingered from the accidents and attrition of time. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Fake news1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Foolishness1 quote
The ultimate result of shielding men from the effects of folly is to fill the world with fools. — Herbert Spencer · 1858Law1 quote
Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Legal system1 quote
Statements, indictments, bills are circulated, shuffled between judges, prosecutors, the Attorney General, the Lord Chancellor’s office; each step in the process clear, logical, and designed to create corpses by due process of law. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Overcoming adversity1 quote
The things you think are disasters in your life are not disasters really. Almost anything can be turned around: out of every ditch, a path, if you can only see it. — Hilary Mantel · 2012Predator and prey1 quote
We have unmistakable proof that throughout all past time, there has been a ceaseless devouring of the weak by the strong. — Herbert Spencer · 1865The internet1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Truth1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015Truth vs. fiction1 quote
Things get passed around so easily on the internet. And fact becomes fiction and fiction becomes fact, without anyone stepping in to arbitrate and say, what are your sources? — Hilary Mantel · 2015